Monday, May 31, 2010

The Perfect Getaway

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Dos Mundos

restaurant

On the hot and humid Pacific coast of Guatemala, at the end of the palm-fringed road lies the beach town of Monterico. Blink and you'll miss it, as the signs are far and few between. Best accessed via shuttle from Antigua or Guatemala City, it is a semi-remote tropical paradise. The best of the few hotels is Dos Mundos: 12 bungalows with intricately woven thatch roofs, air conditioning, and a bar at the mail pool that serves up superb pina coladas.

Dos Mundos is one of two very good hotels, with the other up at Lake Atitlan and it may

The Perfect Getaway

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Dos Mundos

restaurant

On the hot and humid Pacific coast of Guatemala, at the end of the palm-fringed road lies the beach town of Monterico. Blink and you'll miss it, as the signs are far and few between. Best accessed via shuttle from Antigua or Guatemala City, it is a semi-remote tropical paradise. The best of the few hotels is Dos Mundos: 12 bungalows with intricately woven thatch roofs, air conditioning, and a bar at the mail pool that serves up superb pina coladas.

Dos Mundos is one of two very good hotels, with the other up at Lake Atitlan and it may

Sunday, May 30, 2010

The Perfect Getaway

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Dos Mundos

restaurant

On the hot and humid Pacific coast of Guatemala, at the end of the palm-fringed road lies the beach town of Monterico. Blink and you'll miss it, as the signs are far and few between. Best accessed via shuttle from Antigua or Guatemala City, it is a semi-remote tropical paradise. The best of the few hotels is Dos Mundos: 12 bungalows with intricately woven thatch roofs, air conditioning, and a bar at the mail pool that serves up superb pina coladas.

Dos Mundos is one of two very good hotels, with the other up at Lake Atitlan and it may

Friday, May 28, 2010

The Perfect Getaway

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Dos Mundos

restaurant

On the hot and humid Pacific coast of Guatemala, at the end of the palm-fringed road lies the beach town of Monterico. Blink and you'll miss it, as the signs are far and few between. Best accessed via shuttle from Antigua or Guatemala City, it is a semi-remote tropical paradise. The best of the few hotels is Dos Mundos: 12 bungalows with intricately woven thatch roofs, air conditioning, and a bar at the mail pool that serves up superb pina coladas.

Dos Mundos is one of two very good hotels, with the other up at Lake Atitlan and it may

Thursday, May 27, 2010

The Perfect Getaway

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Dos Mundos

restaurant

On the hot and humid Pacific coast of Guatemala, at the end of the palm-fringed road lies the beach town of Monterico. Blink and you'll miss it, as the signs are far and few between. Best accessed via shuttle from Antigua or Guatemala City, it is a semi-remote tropical paradise. The best of the few hotels is Dos Mundos: 12 bungalows with intricately woven thatch roofs, air conditioning, and a bar at the mail pool that serves up superb pina coladas.

Dos Mundos is one of two very good hotels, with the other up at Lake Atitlan and it may

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

The Lady and the Ocelot

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towelRoatan's loss is Antigua's gain...Elle Patille, famed covergirl (Playboy et al) has said goodbye to Hondura's famed island and the West End community. She's considered sidelining her modeling career and going back to her first love, animal care(and a few birds)...lucky beasts. She hails from Toronto and has graced many a magazine, either on the cover or in the pictorials. After several years of traveling the world, doing photo shoots hither, thither and yon, the pace and the grueling work of being photogenic have convinced her to go back to her first love, taking care of castaway pets, assorted animals

Monday, May 24, 2010

A Mystery in the Museum

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skullright

In the finest museum of Guatemala, the Popol Vuh, there are many rooms of priceless Mayan artifacts. There's pottery, ceramics and intricately carved obsidian knives. There are stone statues of mushroom deities, sacred frogs and chocolate serving vessels.The most unusual and inexplicable item is in Room 1, located immediately past the entrance.

mushroom

Mounted on a five foot high white pedestal, and set behind clear plexiglass is something that doesn't fit. Measuring some four inches high and about seven inches long is a quartz replica of a human skull. It was catalogued as being part of a large collection donated in the 1970's by a prominent Guatemalan family, the